Handle socket and protector



Dec. 17, 1929. .1. H. WILSON HANDLE SOCKET AND PROTECTOR Filed Nov. 21., 1927 Patented Dec. 17, 1929 JOHN H. WILSON, OF NEW KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB, BY TMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA HANDLE SOCKET AND PROTECTOR Application filed November 21, 1927.

My invention relates to improvements in handle sockets, and more particularly to sockets for securing the handles to cooking and other vessels and utensils, and consists of an especially constructed socket adapted for protecting wooden handles on vessels used over a lire.

Various forms of fastenings for wooden handles as now commonly employed on cooking vessels, for securing the lower end of the handle to the vessel, do not afford suflicient protection to the handle when the vessel is used over an exposed flame, permitting the handle and fastening to be exposed on all sides to the direct action of the flame and heat, with the result that these parts quickly heat to a degree as to cause charring or burning of the lower portion of the wooden handle.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved form of socket for wooden handles, which is more effective than the sockets heretofore employed for protecting the lower end of the handle adjacent to its point of connection with the vessel.

A further object is to provide a socket of the above mentioned character which shall be simple in form and structure, and which may be manufactured economically.

My invention may be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention and in which Figure 1 is an elevati-onal view of a vessel having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an elevational face view of the socket of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale along the line ITTTIT of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the socket of Fig. 1 detached from the vessel; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the above socket is formed; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views corresponding to views 2, 4 and 5, of a modified form of socket.

In the drawing, the invention is shown as employed with a pot having a wooden handle 2- which is secured at its upper end to the pot by a fixture including a screw 3. The connection for the upper end of the handle may, however, be of any desired form.

The lower end of the handle is connected Serial No. 234,662.

to the pot by my improved socket which is indicated generally by the numeral T. The socket is devised for encasing the end porti-on of the handle in such manner as to protect it from direct contact with flame, the structure being such as to cause the flame to be deflected away from the handle.

The socket is formed with a continuous straight bottom wall 5 sloping in an upward and outward direction, the bottom wall terminating at its lower end with the side wall of the vessel, thus forming a substantially continuous unbroken surface to the socket bottom wall from the pot wall, which deflects the flame.

The socket is formed with side walls 6 which are continuous with the bottom wall throughout its length, and which are preterably turned at right angles to the bottom wall. The socket has the ears or tabs 7 for connecting the socket to the vessel by riveting thereto as shown, or by screws, as desired.

The socket as shown in Figs. 1 to 5 is struck up from a rectangular blank 8, which blank may be produced by the simple shearing 0i strip metal without waste and without the necessity of trimming or giving to the blank a preliminary form. The blank, sheared to the proper size, is then bent in suitable dies to shape the socket to the form as shown in Fig. at.

In forming the socket the dies bend the blank along the lines 9 and 10, the lines 9 defining the bends for forming the socket recess, and the lines 10 defining the bends which form the ears 7 and which gives the taper to the bottom of the socket.

Referring now to Figs. 6 to 8, I have shown a slightly modified form of socket which is struck up from a circular blank, such as the blank 12. The operations in producing the modified form being in all respects the same as in the making of the socket from a rectangular blank; the dies acting on the blank along the lines 13 and 141 give shape to the blank as shown in Fig. 7, in which 15 represents the bottom wall of the socket, and 16 the side walls, the attaching wings or ears being indicated at 17.

In the modified form the socket is given a taper on the sides as well as the bottom, the purpose of which is to form the sides for deflecting the heat and flame away from the wooden handle as obtains with the sloping bottom. In the rectangular form the sides "of the socket may also bemadetapering as in the modified form.

The socket as above formed provides means "for attaching the handle in which the wall oft'he vessel serves as one wall of the socket recess for confining the handle in thesocket. The sloping or tapering character of the socket recess allords means whereby the handle may be inserted to lit tightly without the necessity of accurately forming the handle 'to the dimensions of the socket preliminary toitsentry'therein. Thus, with the tapered socket, the lower end of the handle may be given a rough general shape to permit entry into the socket, and then forced and wedged therein'to the positionto be assumed in the completed article.

By reason of forming the socket with three sides, and in the manner as shown, wooden handles may be readily attached to vessels in which the flame is deflected away from thehandle and in which the liquid in the vessel, which maybe a coffee pot, tends to act as a cooling agent, for the socket and thereby prevent overheating of the socket and charring of the handle.

Whatl claim is:

A socket member-for pot handles and'the 7 like comprising a member ioldedadJacent to its mid portion along substantially parallel lines to form the bottom wall of the socket and folded along diagonal lines extending outwardly from the outer sides of the parallel linest'o the edges of said memher to form wing-portions that are disposed at an angle to the said bottom wall, and to form side walls, the side and bottom walls defining a tapered recess that is open at its upper end and closed at its lower end.

In testimony whereof I, the said JOHN H. lVnsoN, have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN H. 'lV-ILSON. 

